Professor Olaf Schmidt | Agriculture and Food Sciences
Professor Schmidt represents the Agriculture and Food Science Programme Board. He is Head of Subject of Agri-Environmental Science, Professor at the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science where he teaches entomology and soil science, and a member of the Executive of the UCD Earth Institute. Outside UCD, Olaf is Secretary of Global Action Plan (GAP) Ireland, a charity based in Ballymun that focuses on behaviour change to promote environmental sustainability in communities.
Dr Fionnuala Walsh | Arts & Humanities
Dr Walsh is Associate Professor in Modern Irish History. Her research interests are primarily in the field of women's and gender history with particular interest in civilian experiences of the First World War and the Irish revolution, women's writings of war and conflict in Ireland and Britain in the twentieth century, and histories of reproduction, maternity and motherhood. Fionnuala has extensive interests in inclusive teaching practices and efforts to improve student engagement. She was appointed a University for All Faculty Partner to represent the College of Arts and Humanities in 2021 and currently serves as the College Widening Participation Lead and the School of History Director of Teaching and Learning. She is also part of a College SATLE project which explores generative AI from an inclusion and accessibility perspective. She has a particular interest in supporting mature students, drawn from her experience of working with the UCD Access Programme.
Dr Ellen Rowley | Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
Ellen Rowley is Assistant Professor in Modern Irish Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. She is an architectural and cultural historian, a teacher and a writer. Interested in architectural obsolescence, the intersection of social histories and buildings, and the place of the Catholic Church in Ireland’s built environment, she has published extensively including Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition (2019, Routledge, Taylor + Francis); and (co-editor), Making Belfield. Space + Place at UCD (2020, UCD Press); as well as More Than Concrete Blocks, volumes 1 and 2 (2016/9, Four Courts Press) which are socio-cultural histories of Dublin’s buildings from 1900 to 1972. Volume 3 is currently under production. In 2017, Ellen was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, for services to Irish architecture. Always grateful for the privilege of a great education, Ellen is an advocate for access to university education and specifically, the need for widening participation in architectural education.
Aoife Doherty | Business
Aoife is the School Office Director for the UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business.
Dr Md Sallaudin | Engineering
Dr Md Salauddin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering, where his teaching and research focus is Water and Environmental Engineering. He joined the School of Civil Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2020, prior to which, he held research positions at the University of Warwick and at the University College Dublin on research projects funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Md Salauddin also worked as a Faculty Member at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, where he was engaged in teaching and research activities in hydraulics and water resources engineering.
Dr Gavin Barrett | Law
Gavin is a professor specialising in EU Law in the Sutherland Law School, UCD, and the sometime Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic and Constitutional Law. He is the author or editor of several books on EU law, most recently co-editing The Future of Legal Europe: Will We Trust in It? and has published articles in the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the European Constitutional Law Review, the Yearbook of European Law, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the European Law Journal as well as numerous book chapters. He is a frequent contributor to both broadcast and written media. He was recently the recipient of a university research impact award and was previously the School Head of Teaching and Learning. He is coordinator of the Dublin EU Law Working Group as well as a frequent chair and contributor at the Institute of International and European Affairs.
Associate Professor Suzanne Donnelly | Medicine
Associate Professor Donnelly is UCD Director of Clinical Education and consultant rheumatologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. In January 2017, she was appointed Associate Dean for Programmes & Educational Innovation in UCD School of Medicine.
Dr Freda Browne| Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems
Freda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Systems and teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and midwifery programmes. Dr. Browne is the Programme Director for the BSc in General Nursing and a Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer on the undergraduate nursing programme. She is also a Module Co-ordinator on the MSc/ Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education. Freda has over 13 years of experience in nurse education in both clinical education and higher education settings. Her research interests are in scholarship of teaching and learning, which is reflected in her teaching practice and publications. She has completed the Digital Badge in Universal Design in Teaching & Learning and the associated Facilitator's Badge in 2020.
Associate Professor Caitríona Cunningham | Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
Caitríona is an Associate Professor at UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. Her research and teaching focuses on musculoskeletal health, related health services and promotion of physical activity and exercise. She is a state registered Physiotherapist with over ten years clinical experience and has a strong commitment to facilitating the translation of evidence into practice, with active involvement in national and international research, professional and community networks. As a former Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning, she promotes excellence in teaching and education developments across a range of health and sports programmes. She chairs the Widening Participation Outreach Coordinating Network. In 2015, she co founded the innovative UCD Physio Hub to facilitate the delivery of Physiotherapy-led exercise and health promotion programmes to a wider community and provide ‘real world’ learning and research opportunities.
Professor Keith Murphy | Science
Keith is Professor of Neuropharmacology and VP for Widening Participation for UCD College of Science.
Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila | Social Sciences
Ernesto is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and the College of Social Sciences; Vice Principal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion/Widening Participation, College of Social Sciences and Law; and University for All Faculty Partner. By background he is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from Columbia University, New York. He has published on areas of masculinities; sexual and reproductive rights; transnational migration; global health; and sexualities. He received the 'European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities' (2023); UCD 'University level Teaching Excellence Award' (2023); the 'UCD Values in Action Award' (2023), and the 'Award for Excellence in Global Health' from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University (2009). He co-edited Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (Routledge 2019) and is the author of Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014). He has previously taught at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima; Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and at the University of the Philippines, Manila.
Dr Gavin Barrett | Law
Gavin is a professor specialising in EU Law in the Sutherland Law School, UCD, and the sometime Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic and Constitutional Law. He is the author or editor of several books on EU law, most recently co-editing The Future of Legal Europe: Will We Trust in It? and has published articles in the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the European Constitutional Law Review, the Yearbook of European Law, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the European Law Journal as well as numerous book chapters. He is a frequent contributor to both broadcast and written media. He was recently the recipient of a university research impact award and was previously the School Head of Teaching and Learning. He is coordinator of the Dublin EU Law Working Group as well as a frequent chair and contributor at the Institute of International and European Affairs.
Dr Arun Kumar | Veterinary Medicine and Veterinary Nursing
Arun is a clinician, drug discovery scientist, and entrepreneur, with over 15 years of research and teaching experience in pharmacology and regenerative medicine. Extensive international experience with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has successfully directed several projects in preclinical/clinical pharmacology, specifically in cardiovascular pathophysiology, diabetic complications, medical devices, arthritis, and regenerative medicine, which has resulted in either patentable products and/or high impact publications.